Guniabay Creek (Jurassic of Tajikistan)

Where: Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan (37.4° N, 74.7° E: paleocoordinates 30.2° N, 70.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Lower Member (Gurumdy Formation), Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone and lithified, argillaceous schist

• "contains dark, medium and thick-bedded lime-stones lacking organic structures, as well as detrital lime-stones with abundant faunal remains, marls and interbedded argillaceous schists." and "dark-grey, micritic limestones containing abundant fragments of coral skeletons of diverse solitary and phaceloid forms"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: G. K. Melnikova and E. Roniewicz. 2020. Lower Jurassic corals from the Pamir Mountains, Central Asia. Paleoworld 30(3):461-494 [W. Kiessling/A. Watson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234061: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Alissa Watson on 15.03.2024

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Taxonomic list

• Only corals reported. Bivalves, brachiopods and rare ammonites were reported to be present.
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Oppelismiliidae
Thecactinastraea cf. fasciculata
Thecactinastraea cf. fasciculata Beauvais 1986 stony coral